SDN & Network Control Plane Engineer - Satellite Internet

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a software-focused engineer to design, implement, and operate the Leo SDN control plane for a massive satellite-ground network. The role emphasizes high throughput, low latency, and scalable routing solutions across space and terrestrial segments.

Responsibilities include building a modern network architecture, implementing SDN technologies, and delivering reliable control plane software across distributed nodes, with a strong focus on

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver a modern, scalable, high-throughput network architecture for a global telecom service spanning space and terrestrial networks.
• Implement Routing and Forwarding, Traffic Engineering, and SDN technologies to provide best-in-class broadband services.
• Develop highly-available software driving networking control plane operation on physical and remote nodes.
• Define and automate processes used for software development, testing, and maintenance.
• Provide operational excellence for control plane services, including tooling and process refinement.
• Develop routing control plane software for network nodes in C and Rust.

Skills

3+ years of non-internship software

2+ years design/architecture

Experience programming in at least one

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a software-focused engineer to design, implement, and operate the Leo SDN control plane for a massive satellite-ground network. The role emphasizes high throughput, low latency, and scalable routing solutions across space and terrestrial segments.

Responsibilities include building a modern network architecture, implementing SDN technologies, and delivering reliable control plane software across distributed nodes, with a strong focus on